Samsung introduces 256GB high-speed storage for smartphones, tablets

Many high-end smartphones offer up to 64GB of storage. A few are available with 128GB. And a handful go even further than that.

But Samsung says it’s now mass producing a 256GB embedded memory chip that will provide plenty of speedy storage for next-gen mobile devices.

The new 256GB memory is based on the Universal Flash Storage 2.0 standard, and Samsung says it offers speeds almost twice as fast as a SATA SSD, with data read speeds up to 805MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 260MB/s.

Among other things, Samsung says that means the internal storage of premium smartphones will finally be fast enough to handle the super-fast data transfers you get on devices with USB 3.0 ports… allowing you to transfer a 5GB video file in 12 seconds, for example.

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Yes please for my iPhone 7 this fall.

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So you could make your smartphone the primary boot device for your desktop computer? 😉

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I was thinking more of the speed of the memory, but good to know!

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It was about time for them to have a faster UFS 2.0 and catch up but at that capacity it has little relevance.

Edit: you missed the most important part – random at 45,000 IOPS read and 40,000 IOPS write – random write is impressive.

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A thousand internets to the man who brings me a smartphone UFS 2.0 internal storage, and UHS-2 SD card compatibility.

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Samsungs memory chips actually do 805Mbps, or the UFS2 interface is capable of 805Mbps?

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Smartphones yes, but i more like these for 2 in 1s because so many use flash over ssd’s.